首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Do patents help or hinder innovation? Instinctively, they would seem a blessing. Patenting an idea gives its inventor a 20-year
Do patents help or hinder innovation? Instinctively, they would seem a blessing. Patenting an idea gives its inventor a 20-year
admin
2019-09-30
69
问题
Do patents help or hinder innovation? Instinctively, they would seem a blessing. Patenting an idea gives its inventor a 20-year monopoly to exploit the fruit of his labor in the marketplace, in exchange for publishing a full account of how the new product, process or material works for everyone to see. For the inventor, that may be a reasonable trade-off. For society, however, the loss of competition through the granting sole rights to an individual or organization is justified only if it stimulates the economy and delivers goods that change people’s lives for the better.
Invention, though, is not innovation. It may take a couple of enthusiasts working evenings and weekends for a year or two—not to mention tens of thousands of dollars of their savings—to get a pet idea to the patenting stage. But that is just the beginning. Innovations based on patented inventions or discoveries can take teams of researchers, engineers and marketing experts a decade or more, and tens of millions of dollars, to transfer to the marketplace. And for every bright idea that goes on to become a commercial winner, literally thousands
fall by the wayside
.
Most economists would argue that, without a patent system, even fewer inventions would lead to successful innovations, and those that did would be kept secret for far longer in order to maximize returns. But what if patents actually discourage the combining and recombining of inventions to yield new products and processes—as has happened in biotechnology, genetics and other disciplines?
Or what about those ridiculous business-process patents, like Amazon.com’s "one-click" patent or the "name-your-price" auction patent assigned to Priceline.com? Instead of stimulating innovation, such patents seem more about extracting "rents" from innocent bystanders going about their business. One thing has become clear since business-process patents took off in America during the 1990s: the quality of patents has deteriorated markedly. And with sloppier patenting standards, litigation has increased. The result is higher transaction costs all round.
It is not simply a failure of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to examine applications more rigorously. The Federal Circuit has been responsible for a number of bizarre rulings. Because of its diverse responsibilities, the Federal Circuit—unlike its counterparts in Europe and Japan— has never really acquired adequate expertise in patent law.
To be eligible for a patent, an invention must not just be novel, but also useful and non-obvious. Anything that relies on natural phenomena, abstract ideas or the laws of nature does not qualify. The USPTO has taken to requiring a working prototype of anything that supposedly breaches the laws of physics. So, no more perpetual-motion machines, please.
What can we learn from the first paragraph?
选项
A、It is a natural tendency for people to believe that innovation is stimulated by patents.
B、The inventors cannot reap the fruits of their patents until many years later.
C、Individuals and organizations welcome competitions brought about by the patentees.
D、Patenting can never be a blessing to society if it fails to benefit people at large.
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。第一段结尾部分第五句谈到了作者对专利的看法:只有(only if)当专利授予刺激了经济发展,生产出商品,从而改善了人们生活时,专利导致的竞争丧失才看似合理,这样的专利才可以被认为是一种福佑,故D项正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Ele4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
Thelawofsupplyanddemandwilleventuallytakecareofashortageor______ofdentists.
ThemajordifferencebetweennarrativesalesandsuggestivesalesisthatMindycomparessalespeopletowinestewardsinthat_
Theauthorthinksthatpullfactors______.People’sdecisionstomigratemightbeinfluencedbyallthefollowingEXCEPT____
Mosthumanbeingsactuallydecidebeforetheythink.Whenanyhumanbeing—executive,specializedexpert,orpersoninthestreet
Workingatnonstandardtimes—evenings,nights,orweekends—istakingitstollonAmericanfamilies.One-fifthofallemployedAm
Workingatnonstandardtimes—evenings,nights,orweekends—istakingitstollonAmericanfamilies.One-fifthofallemployedAm
Everyone,itseems,hasahealthproblem.AfterpouringbillionsintotheNationalHealthService,Britishpeoplemoanaboutdir
Thistimelastyearthreeoutoffour16to24-year-oldswerewearingthewhitebandofMakePovertyHistory.Whateverthecampa
AnonymityisnotsomethingwhichwasinventedwiththeInternet.Anonymityandpseudonymityhasoccurredthroughouthistory.For
随机试题
由于硝酸的不稳定性,要装于棕色瓶中并放在阴凉处保存。
有关肾细胞癌的特点,错误的是
关于负压吸引术宫颈裂伤错误的是
被毒蛇咬伤后是因蛇毒的作用而发病,下列哪一种不能破坏蛇毒:
合同当事人承担违约责任的形式有()。
办好2022年北京冬奥会,是我们对国际奥林匹克大家庭的庄严承诺,也是实施京津冀协同发展战略的重要举措。那么,我国关于2022年北京冬奥会的办奥理念是:
张明、李英、王佳和陈蕊四人在一个班组工作,他们来自江苏、安徽、福建和山东四个省,每个人只会说原籍的一种方言。现已知福建人会说闽南方言,山东人学历最高且会说中原官话,王佳比福建人的学历低,李英会说徽州话并且和来自江苏的同事是同学,陈蕊不懂闽南方言。
某乡政府通知所辖村村委会,要求村委会向每户村民收取500元用于修建该村文化活动中心,村民认为修建文化活动中心的决定没有通过他们讨论同意,不愿交款,村委会告知村民,如不按期交款,就不发放防洪工程补助款,村民对此强烈不满,欲罢免村委会成员请结合以上材
设A是3×3矩阵,β1,β2,β3是互不相同的3维列向量,且都不是方程组Ax=0的解,记B=(β1,β2,β3),且满足r(AB)<r(A),r(AB)<r(B).则r(AB)等于()
ChoosethemostsuitableheadingsforparagraphsB-Ffromthelistofheadingsbelow.Writetheappropriatenumbers(/-IX)in
最新回复
(
0
)